The Supreme Court announced today that it has granted review in three new cases. One of them is before the Court on leave to appeal, while the other two involve grants of certification The leave to appeal case is State ...
Garden State Check Cashing Service, Inc. v. New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance, 237 N.J. 482 (2019). As discussed here, this was the very first appeal of the current Supreme Court term. Today, in a unanimous opinion by Justice ...
Add two more cases to the Supreme Court’s docket. One of them is before the Court as of right, by virtue of a dissent in the Appellate Division. In the other appeal, the Court granted certification. The first case is ...
Chirino v. Proud 2 Haul, Inc., 458 N.J. Super. 308 (App. Div. 2017), aff’d o.b., 237 N.J. 440 (2019). There is a long-settled general rule that an appellate court will not consider issues that have not been raised below. But ...
On this date in 1965, the Supreme Court decided Tidewater Oil Co. v. Mayor & Council of Borough of Carteret, 44 N.J. 338 (1965), a municipal land use case. That is still the leading case on the question of the ...
The Supreme Court announced that it has granted certification in two more cases. In the first matter, State v. Medina, the question presented, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk’s office, is “Under the circumstances presented, did testimony elicited by ...
The Supreme Court announced today that it has granted certification to review three cases. Two of them are criminal appeals. The third is another case involving an arbitration agreement. The first of the two criminal cases is State v. Jones. ...
Piscitelli v. City of Garfield Bd. of Adj., 237 N.J. 333 (2019). Conflict of interest issues are often sticky. That was doubly so in this case, which the Supreme Court decided today, since there were not just one but two ...
The Supreme Court announced late today that it has granted certification in In re Application for Permit to Carry a Handgun of Calvin Carlstrom. The question presented on that appeal, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk’s office, is “Among ...
Chief justice Rabner was the guest speaker at last night’s NJSBA Appellate Practice Committee meeting. He was aware that Judge Vernoia spoke at a previous meeting about appellate briefing, as reported here. So he chose to focus his remarks on ...